The district administration in Rajshahi imposed a restriction on selling watermelons by weight today as the fruits were being sold for high prices in the city than in previous years.

University Grants Commission (UGC) has found an unauthorised study centre -- London School of Commerce, Dhaka -- and urged the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to close the centre.

Detectives have identified at least 313 persons who used to provide funds to Hefajat-e-Islam, which carried out violence and vandalism across the country in March this year.

Twenty-one days after the authorities claimed that none of its students took part in March 26 vandalism and arson, Al Jamia Al Islamia Al Yunusiya Madrasa expelled 20 students for allegedly taking part in the mayhem in Brahmanbaria.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today provided Tk 10 crore as assistance to the country’s journalists during the Covid-19 pandemic.

He was born on April 27, 1936 in a famous zamindar family of Baniachang, Sylhet. He passed away on December 20, 2019. He left behind his work and his organisation BRAC. He is still alive in the hearts of people. I am talking about none other than Fazle Hasan Abed. Thanks to a book writing opportunity, I had the good fortune of getting close to him for a few consecutive years. Together, we visited many places of Bangladesh. I saw and I learned about various activities of BRAC. I also came to know about different aspects of his personality.

Chinese State Councilor and Defence Minister Wei Fenghe arrived in Dhaka this morning on a brief visit.

Md Abdur Rahim, officer-in-charge of Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station, has been transferred.

Police recovered the body of a young girl from a rented flat in Dhaka's Gulshan area last night.

Police have arrested 10 activists of Hefajat-e-Islam including its Brahmanbaria district unit’s assistant publicity affairs secretary Mufti Maulana Zakaria Khan in connection with the mayhem in the district from March 26 to 28.

The ongoing restrictions on “overall activities” and movement of people and vehicles have been extended for a week in a bid to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Crowds at shopping centres and malls have increased sharply, just a day after the government allowed shops and malls to reopen their doors ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

Five coronavirus positive Bangladeshis, who arrived from India through Benapole land port recently, have fled from the coronavirus ward of Jashore General Hospital.

Mamunul Haque, former joint secretary general of Hefajat-e-Islam, today said he went to Baitul Mukarram at the request of a DIG-ranked police official on March 26.

Bangladesh has seen an exceptional growth in the number of social media users in the past year.

A Dhaka court today placed former joint secretary general of Hefajat-e-Islam Mamunul Haque and its Dhaka city unit president Junayed Al Habib on seven-day remand each in two cases filed with Motijheel and Paltan police stations over the 2013 mayhem and recent violence in Dhaka.

One person was electrocuted while working at an under-construction flyover in Chattogram’s Patenga early today.

State Minister for Labour and Employment Begum Monnujan Sufian has announced Tk 2 lakh compensation for the family of each victim who died in a clash with police in Chattogram’s Banshkhali coal-based power plant.

One of the 11 members of two families, who suffered injuries after a gas explosion at a building in Narayanganj Sadar upazila, died at a hospital in Dhaka this morning.

Hours after dissolving its central committee, Hefajat-e-Islam announced a five-member convening committee.